Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader
ISBN-10
0415277876
ISBN-13
9780415277877
Category
Experimental films
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Wheeler W. Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Description

Brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

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